What will your family discover?

We’ve written before how we think an appreciation of nature is essential when encouraging kids to get outdoors.

An appreciation of nature is essential when encouraging kids to get outdoors.

An appreciation of nature is essential when encouraging kids to get outdoors.

An app for your phone we previously reported on, allowed you to photo plants and animals, and using your GPS, allowed scientists to learn about the biodiversity of a region. Unfortunately that app was for only one part of the UK.

However, there is an alternative, and one that captures information world wide: iNaturalist.

The iNaturalist App

After you have installed the app you must first create an iNaturalist account, which you can do in the app. You can also sign-in with Facebook.

Using the app is straightforward.

Find something interesting

Take a photo

The app will probably ask permission to use your camera, access your phone’s GPS so that it can record the location of what you found, and access your photos where the picture is stored.

After taking the photo you can then sync it with iNaturalist when you are at home and connected to Wi Fi, so that your wildlife photos and location information can be uploaded and made available to scientists.

Other things in the app is the ability to see what others have found near you, a leader board, and Projects…

National Geographic’s ‘The Great Nature Project’

Under Projects you can sign up to different projects that are running, making your observations available to those projects.

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